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What Are Effective School Leaders, and How Can States and Districts Develop Them? (Fact Sheet)
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What Are Effective School Leaders, and How Can States and Districts Develop Them? (Fact Sheet)

Published: Apr 04, 2019
Publisher: Washington, DC: Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory
Human Services Education Teacher and Principal Effectiveness

Associated Project

Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Mid-Atlantic

Time frame: 2017-2027

Prepared for:

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences

Authors

REL Mid-Atlantic

In recent years, the job of the school principal has evolved from administrative oversight to include more complicated responsibilities. Principals today are expected to create collaborative environments for staff, provide effective instructional leadership, make strategic decisions, and ensure academic progress.

Recent research has demonstrated that principals are essential to student achievement—principals’ effects in this area are almost as large as teachers’. Given the central importance of school leadership, it’s important to ask what makes for an effective principal.

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